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POPULAR VICTOR ARTIST
And Brilliant Bruilian Violinist In Big
Concert Party at Chautauqua.
Christian Matliiesen the popular
Norwegian tenor, who has made so
many records for the Victor Company,
will head his own company this year,
and is one of the big musical attrac
tions scheduled for the Chautauqua.
He is bringing with him Ignatius Tello,
the brilliant Brazilian violinist, whose
ARTICLE TEX OP LEAGUE COVE
XAXT WOULD I OKHII) WAHS
OF AGGKESIOX.
The most noteworthy bugaboo
used by opponents of the League of
Nations to scare the people—Article
of the covenant—was proved a
straw man by Claude Swanson of
Virginia in his keynote speech open
ing the real fight in the senate for
President Wilson's world peace pro
gram. Carefully analysing every
provision in the famous document,
Senator Swanson closed with this
tribute to the united work of the
best minds of 22 nations of the
world:
"It is one of the world's greatest
documents, marking the beginning
of a new and better order in world
affairs, separating a past dark with
war and strife, from the sunlight of
a future bright with peace and in
ternational co-operation and con
ciliation. Out of the Revolutionary
war, won by American valor and sac
rifice, emerged the Declaration of
Independence and the constitution
of the United States, the two most
precious parchments yet conceived
by human mind. The constitution
when proposed was assailed with
virulence and encountered proph
ecies of dreadful calamities to fol
low its adoption exceeding anything
that has been directed against the
covenant.
"The pathway of our duty is plain.
We should neither hesitate nor halt,
bilt firmly align ourselves with the
forces that are working for world
betterment. With strong arms and
brave hearts let us faithfully dis
charge our responsibilities as the
world's greatest power and fearless
ly face a future which beckons us to
a greater glory and usefulness."
Prefacing his analysis, Senator
Swanson pointed out that the 22 na
tions that framed the treaty repre
sented nine-tenths of the world's
population of one and one-half bil
lions, that estimates are that 7,400,
000 men were killed and 7,175,000
permanently disabled, and that the
conclusion of the war finds the world
burdened with a public debt aggre
gating i90 billion dollars, or one
third of its total wealth.
The majority of the world's great
war "have been occasioned by a de
sire of conquest and to obtain addi
tional territory," said Senator Swan
son, in discussing Article X, and he
summarized the chief objections as
follows:
"Those of our countrymen who
antagonize the League have directed
against this provision their most
persistent and unrelenting opposi
tion. They liave Insisted that the
assumption by us of this obligation
would embroil us in interminable
wrars with all the attendant expense
and danger. They have presented
dire forebodings of United States
troops being sent to every part of
the globe to settle "etty territorial
quarrels. They contend that in
adopting this provision of the cove
nant the United btates uses her great
power, without any recompense
•whatever, to bring to other nations
repose and security.
"It should be noted that this is an
obligation assumed, not by the
League as an entirety, but by each
member individuals, he continued.
"Each member of the League un
dertakes, first, to respect the terri
torial integrity and existing politi
cal independence of all members.
This is a solemn promise made by
each member that it will never en
deavor to acquire by conquest or
aggression any of the territory or
Dossessions of any other member.
In common parlance, we would
agree not to rob any of our associ
ates in the League and they would
agree not to rob us.
"If this League is consummated,
as contemplated, it means immedi
ately that four-fifths of the world,
and eventually all the world, agrees
to cease from wars of conquest and
despoilment. If adherrea to it
would eliminate the causes which
have produced most of the wars of
the paBt. If observed, there is not
a member of the League, great or
small, that ever would have its in
dividual political existence threaten
ed and no more would the history
of the world be encumbered with the
frightful wreck of people and nations
through lust of conquest.
"The second obligation assumed
by each member of the League in
dividually is to 'preserve as acainat
external aggression the territorial
integrity and existing political inde
pendence of all members of the
LMga**' This Is a ntanl earoal
laiyfrom the ftrst la th*
impetuous playing hits boen receiving
such favorable comment, of late, his
work showing refinement and excel
lent taste. In Pittsburgh, where she
holds one -of the Ixwt church po
sitions, Miss Jeannette Booher, the so
prano, is known as -a remarkably suc
cessful singer, and comes from the
Cincinnati Symphony. Miss Margarite
Poindexter is the pianist and accompa
nist of the party and Justifies the use
of both titles. Temperamentally and
technically it is a great combination.
undertake not to rob our associates
ourselves, anrl in this we agree not
to permit others to do so each as
sociate assuming a like obligation to
us."
There have been claims that under
the. League as proposed American
soldiers could be drafted for the
quelling of rebellions in other
countries. Senator Swanson con
clusively disproved this assertion by
saying:
"it should be noted that -this
guararttee of territorial integrity and
political independence is limited to
those cases where they are threaten
ed or attacked by external aggres
sion, and does Tiot. apply to revolu
tion within a nation. A nation's in
ternal affairs are left undisturbed.
A nation can reform, modify, or
change its existing government ac
cording to the wishes of the people.
If necessary to accomplish these
purposes, force can be used. A na
tion may separate and divide into
several units, as the people may de
termine, provided no external force
is applied."
The maintenance of the Monroe
Doctrine by the United States when
it was a comparatively weak nation
showed, the senator said, that the
League of Nations could usually en
force its decrees without resort to
arms, for "reckless, indeed, would
be that nation which would issue a
challenge of defiance to so powerful
a League and embark upon the ven
turesome enterprise of conquest."
As the council must unanimously
decide Hie matter of larger nations
acting as mandatories for weaker
members of the League, there was
no foundation for the hysterical
claims that the United States troops
must patrol various out-of-the-way
and barbarous countries, he said.
Hankers liegin to Wonder AVliat Will
Happen Next March.
Des Moines, July 23.—What's go
ing to happen in Iowa the first of
next March?
Iowa bankers are begining to won
der, according to the vice president
of one of Des Moines' principal
banks, who, for obvious reasons
does not want to be quoted by name.-.
He forsees numerous difficulties
growing out of the present unpre
cedented movement of Iowa land, at
unprecedented prices.
"I think I am safe in saying," he
declared, "that Iowa Bankers gener
ally and henceforth will adopt a
policy of discouraging the purchase
by their patrons of Iowa land at any
thing above $300 an acre.
"If the present boom continues
there are going to be a number of
heads bumped when settlement day
comes around next spring. First
payments made on Iowa land are
going to be lost by men who can't
afford to lose them, but who will
find themselves iunable "completely
to finance their deals at banks.
"Deals in farms at fancy prices
are flooding into the banks these
days. The bankers are beginning to
worry about the effect. I am not
certain that prevailing prices repre
sent actual infliation neither am I
certain that, even in these days of
high prices. Iowa land generally can
produce sufficiently to make such in
vestments wise.
"The most disturbing fact in the
situation is that one can borrow just
about as much money at the bank
these days on $200 land as he can
borrow on $350 land. On the high
er priced ground, therefore, the
purchaser is going te find that he
must carry about $150 of invest
ment unaided. There are many
people who will be financially un
able to do this, with the result that
they will lose their orginal invest
ment.
"Bankers are advising clients who.
must depend upon the banks to
finance their land ventures to buy
cheaper land. The only man who
can safely afford to buy Iowa land
at $350 today is the man who is
able to pay cash for it:."
If hot weather saps your energy
and you can't work well, it is a sign
that your system is full of bilious
impurities. Ton will be sick if you
do not do something. Take Prickly
Ash Bitters, the remedy for men it
cleanses the blood, liver and bowels,
restores strength, Tim and cheerful
spirits. Price $1.25 per bottle.- E.
E. Bell, Special A«ent.
Abdul half tha people .are lately
devoting their time to public serv
ices: with the rmit that the gtiblic
Is aboat cleaaed oat,
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Man Who Brought Molly Maguires
to Justice Dead.
New York, July 22.—Like a voice
from an age long ago came the word
only recently that James .McParlan
was dead—dead in Denver, Colo., at
the age of 75. In bis lifetime lie
was acclaimed the greatest of de
tectives and liis fame will rest upon
two wonderful exploits, more than
thirty-two years apart, in two v\k' e
ly separated sections of the country
,—Pennsylvania and Idaho.
He was the central ligiua in many
a story of fiction, and the no\el of
Sir Arthur Coonan Doyh\ "In the
Valley of Fear," is supposed to have
been based upon incidents in this
lucky detective's life. Every render
of detective stories—and the readers
are many from President Wilson
down to th« office boy—will recall
how the fictional sleuth concealed
his papers in the heel of his shoe.
As a matter of fact, it was a trick
first employed by McParlan and eag
erly appropriated by the writers.
The circumstances when he did it
the most romantic narratives in pic
turesque history—McParlan's hero
ism in running down the Molly
Maguires in Pennsylvania and bring
ing eleven of them to the scaffold.
This was in the years 1873 to 18 7ti
and McParlan was a Pinkerton man.
The Molly Maguires were the Bol
shevists of their day. Unlike that
breed of the present, however, they
were more closely and compactly
knit together and their organization
was secret. Passwords, grips ami
all the paraphernalia of a fraternal
society they had. Ilow the organi
zation began has never been satis
factorily determined.
Franklin B. Oowen, president of
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company, a Philadelphian,
made up his mind that this terror
ism in the anthracite regions should
be stopped. He called upon the
famous Pinkertons, then in the hey
day of their achievements, and Mc
Parlan was assigned. He was then
a young man, in his twenties, and he
had been a detective only a year.
Assuming the name of James Mc
Kenna, McParlan stepped off the
train at Port Clinton, Po., and look
ed about for his lodging. Nearby
in a tavern he heard sounds of
drunken revelry. He had come
across a chapter of the Mollies.
Like a brother they took him in an
his ready Irish wit and song made
him popular at once.
From that time on he was a mem
ber of the organization, learned its
secrets and so won the confidence of
these desperate men that they made
him their secretary. He took notes
of all he discovered, jotting them
down sometimes with washing blu
ing or soot and water because he
did not dare to buy a bottle of ink.
He kept his employers informed of
all that went on, and it was said
that, only three men knew McPar
lan's mission.
For three years the detective
made his investigations, working as
a miner a part of the time and al
ways sharing all the secrets of the
Mollies. Then one day the news
was spread and seventy persons wer^
arrested. McParlan's work, howev
er, was not ended, for he still had
to testify against his late compan
ions.
In the period awaiting the court
'proceedings the detective's life was
threatened many times. Attempts
were made to throw him down a
mine shaft, to poison him and to
blow him up with dynamite. All
this failed and McParlan had .the
satisfaction of sending eleven to
their ekecutions six in Pottsville,
four in Maucli Chunk and one in Lu
zerne county. This was 1 877 and
Molly Maguireism was wiped out.
McParlan moved to Denver, lars e
Iv to get rest in that health giving
city. What he had done was be
hind him and apparently he had
reached the goal of his life. Oc
casionally he would swap yarns, and
the stories he could tell made Nick
Carter, "loung Brady and SherlocK
Holmes, seem like pulling amateurs.
So the time passed on for more than
thirty years.
Then came tales in the newspa
pers of new outrages bv a new srang
resembling Molly Maguires in Idaho.
Dynamiting and murder went on un
checked in the Coeur d'Arlene dis
trict. A easeful of miners were
dropped 1.400 feet down the shaft
of the Independence mine, fourteen
miners were blown to pieces by high
explosives at Cripnle Creek and in
December, 190.", former Governor
Frank Steunenberg was murdered
as he was entering his home in Cald
well. Idaho.
McParlan went to investigate. Tt
was the story of the old days in
Pennsylvania all over again. The
detective obtained his evidence and
numerous arrests and convictions
were made, the arrests including
Harry Orchard. Haywood. Moyer,
Steve Adams, Pettibone, Vincent' St.
John and a long line of men who
had cast disrepute upon honest
workers.
K. & W. May Become Great Trunk
Line It. K.
The old K. & W. railroad may yet
become a link in a great east-and
west through trunk line, if the en
terprising citizens of Keokuk accom
plish their purpose.
The Keokuk Daily Gate City con
tains a long story of three columns
setting forth the plans and efforts
to make a great railway system from
Omaha to Logansport, Ind
A committee headed by Judge Fe
lix T. Hughes, has been to Washing
ton and presented the case before
the council of railway administration
and also before the Interstate Com
merce committee of congress.
The proposition to establish
through freight and passenger ser
vice from Logansport, Ind., to Keo
kuk over the T. P. & W. and from
Keokuk to Shenandoah over the old
K. & W. and the old H. & S. rail
roads and thence into Omaha. The
new route would be known as the
Midway Route. It would connect with
the Pennsylvania at Logansport and
with the Union Pacific at Omaha.
It, would remove the necessity of
going through St. Louis or Chicago
for all freight and passengers in east
and west traffic and it is well known
that there is bound to be more or
less delay and inconvenience in these
great cities where everything is con
gested.
The plan looks very feasible and
while the roads are in the hands of
the government would appear to be
the time to accomplish the improve
ment and have the through service
instituted.
It was the dream of General Drake
and others to make the K. & W. or
rather the old M. I. & N. one of the
great east and west arteries of com
merce and should the recommenda
tions go through which we mention
above, the dream would be realized.
If you can't work well in hot
weather take Prickly Ash Bitters, It
purifies the stomach, liver and bow
els and fortifies the body to resist
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THE LEON REPORTER, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1919. Page FIVM
The Hour of Need
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(Copyright, liUlf, by WusK't'ii l.'M n.
Homesick and heartsick, Viola Glenn
arrived at a settled conclusion ns to
the best course she should pursue.
Since she was a child she had been
motherless. Then l'or six years her
father and herself had made their
home with a distant relative, an old
widow lady. At length Mr. Glenn had
been called West to look after some
I property near the Mexican border.
From a place named Waller he had
written Viola that his duties would de
tain him longer than he had thought.
It was only that Viola spent many
pleasant hours with her fiance, Ernest
Dare, that she was willing to remain
away from her father. Then came a
second cause of anxiety and loneli
ness. Her lover received a letter from
I Mr. Glenn asking him to come to
I hirn, as his engineering experience
would be of much benefit. Viola Glenn
was tearfully solicitous when Ernest
imparted to her this intelligence, but
he assured her that within a few
inontns both he and Iter lather would
return. Then came a long spell of
silence on the part of both father and
lover. Viola wrote repeatedly but re-
ceived no word in reply. She could
only decide that they had gone on
business to some remote place and had
been delayed unexpectedly. Viola was
patient and hopeful for over a month,
Then—
"I can endure this separation from
those I love no longer," she told her
relative "I am going to find Lather
and Ernest, at least find out what
their strange silence means."
Viola arrived at Waller, the town
from which her father had last written
her. It had but one hotel and there
Viola registered, and early the follow
ing day started oat to make inquiries
regarding her father. She met with
the severest disappointment She
learned at the post office that up to six
weeks previous her father had re
ceived mail at the general delivery. Of
Ernest there was no trace whatever.
Viola had very little ready cash, but
she decided that in time her father
must return to Waller. She learned
where she could live at a lower rate
than at the hotel with a Miss Ora
Mayne, who occupied a pleasant little
cottage, and there Viola established
herself. From the first Viola Glenn
liked the pleasant lady, ten years older
than herself, who in turn became
greatly Interested in her guest
Within a week Viola felt that she
had found the dearest friend and con
soler of her life. In fact, she fairly
loved the gentle-spirited lady, attract
ing her as if she were some dearly be
loved sister. As to Miss Mayne it
seemed as if she could not do enough
to show her sympathy and affection
for the lonely girl. She never tired
of the confidence imparted to her by
Viola concerning her father and her
lover. She entered into all the details
of Viola's romance. She built up a
theory that relieved Viola's mind as to
the continued absence and silence of
Mr. Glenn and Ernest Dare.
"They must be away together," she
convinced Viola, "perhaps in some
place beyond the frontier where there
are no mail routes."
"But I cannot remain here indefi
nitely," submitted Viola, "at least with
out going to work and earning some
thing. My money has nearly given out
and I cannot become a burden on
you."
"A burden?" repeated Miss Mayne
spontaneously. "My dear, what would
my life be without you? Since I have
known you I have learned to love you
so that I feel toward you as if yon
were an own daughter."
One morning Viola was helping
about the house, as was her usual cus
tom. She was carrying the scrap bas
ket out-to the rubbish heap to burn
the litter and sweepings she had gath
ered up and had lit it, when an en
velope attracted her attention. Miss
Mayne, she had noted, had received a
letter the day previous and apparently
this was its container. The envelope
was Just igniting when Viola observed
its superscription. A thrill traversed
her frame.
"Why, it's father's handwriting!"
site gasped, but as the envelope was
consumed in the flames Viola gradual
ly convinced herself that her strange
supposition must be a delusion.
She was in her .own room the next
tnorning when she heard a commotion
at the front door, a cry of excited de
light from Miss Mayne, and then—Oh!
,'r could not be possible! the hearty,
joyous tone of her father and, marvel
of marvels, of Ernest Dare!
Viola rushed to the spot, first to be
enfolded in the arms of her father and
then by turns to cry and laugh in the
clasp of her restored lover.
Those were mad. agitated moments
and then, the first excess of emotion
subsiding, Viola glided to the side of
her kind friend. Miss Mayne, and
wound her arms affectionately about
her. "Oh, father!" she cried, "through
ill my suspense and loneliness she
has been like a mother to me!"
"May I remain so, dear Viola7" In
terrupted Miss Mayne tremulously,
"for this is—ray husband."
And then the mystery was explained.
\fr. Glenn had married her secretly
•eforv he went away to find Ernest
ar«». who was being held for ransom
Mexican bandits. Father, lover re
rored to her. a new mother welcoming
ier with earnest love, Viola Glenn felt
hat tear cap of Joy was filial
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"The Cash Store'
July
Clearance Sale
Closes Saturday Night
Here are pricei on a few of
many hot weather needs.
Save some money by buying now.
Hodge-podge
(Prices here and there)
Pure Lineu Crashes, brown or bleached, 23c,
27%c, 32c, 33c.
LTnion Linen Crash- bleaelied 15c.
Tennis and Ked "White Canvas Shoes and Slip
pers 95c and $1.35.
Ladies' Silk Top while or flesh Union Suits
cool and comfortable, special at $1.50.
Ladies' House Dresses and Bungalow Aprons,
specials at $1.19, $1.29 and $1.35.
Ladies' Lisle and Cotton Hosiery at old prices
25c, 38c, 45c, 50c, 60c and 75c.
Ladies' Silk Plated and all Silk Hosiery $1.00,
$1.19, $1.35, $1.75 and $2.00.
Ladies' Silk and Crepe do Chine Dresses.
Lot A at $24.75.
Ladies' fine Silk Dresses
Lot Bat $18.65.
Ladies' fine Silk Dresses
Lot at $14.50.
A new arrival today, the new & fall Shoes.
Ladies' 9-in Satin Top Black Kid Vamps, French
heel, pointed toe, good value, widths a, b, or $8.75 jfj
Ladies' dark brown all Fine Kid, 9-in top, French tV
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